The reason I say that is eventually, everything oscillates itself into a pattern based on the system it's involved in.

For instance, with pandora, I listen to a lot of different genres of music, but eventually with enough 'likes' and 'dislikes', most of my stations, more-or-less, sound the same. Yes, there are subtle differences, but if you don't have my same tastes, the first thing you're going to notice is that I don't care much for country music but I seem to have 18 downtempto beat stations.

I think that same thing happens with game groups, more-or-less. People who like a certain game show up, and then people who like that certain type of game show up...and even more of that type of game gets played. It feeds on itself... which, I'm sure we could make a game about this phenomena as well.

(The most stark and noticable difference is the dividing line between the ameritrash loving folks and the eurogamers. It seems like most gaming fall on either one side or the other of this most divided line.)

Poll

1. What nights of the week are scheduleable for you to go gaming?

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

2. What night works best for you to spend an evening gaming (say 7-11 or 7-10)?

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

3. What's the best start time for an evening (realistically according to your schedule)?

2

3

4

5

6

7

7

8

9

10

11

12

4. What's the best end time (realistically according to your schedule)?

2

3

4

5

6

7

7

8

9

10

11

12

5. Why aren't you getting out and gaming?

Are you kidding?! I AM getting out and gaming!!!

Kidlet duties at home.

Scheduling never works with the gamers I know.

No gamers I know.

Work complications. By the time the dust settles, I barely have time to think.

Life complications.

I hate gaming, but I love the site. Odd, isn't it?

6. Good theme night ideas? Say you were to have a night around a certain theme...

Ameritrash THROWDOWN!

Picasso and the Euro Wooden cubist. (Fresco would make a great game in this theme)

My typical game night runs from 18:30 to 02:00ish. I have no ties or preference to any day of the week, though Mondays and Fridays are the two most common for me (Mondays more so) due to other's schedules. In general I treat any attempt at a theme night as a very good reason to stay away.

One of my current game groups currently meets the 1st 3 Thursday evenings of the month. Most of the other groups I game with have Saturday gamedays that start in the late morning or early afternoon and ends as early as early evening to as late as late night, 6-12 hours. A majority of my gaming hours probably happen in the gamedays.

None of my groups do theme nights/days. The closest we come is I bring alot of Halloween themed games to gamenights/days in October.

Seems like a theme night could only exacerbate any problems for any game group large enough to play multiple games. If I hate worker placement games and it's worker placement theme night, I won't want to come. If I hate worker placement games and it's a normal night, one group can play WP games all night but I can play something else with a different group.

I would be gaming every hour of every day for the rest of my life, but I need money, so my gaming is interrupted by a job. And sleep, so my gaming is interrupted by sleeping. And a family, so my gaming is interrupted by them...

I would be gaming every hour of every day for the rest of my life, but I need money, so my gaming is interrupted by a job. And sleep, so my gaming is interrupted by sleeping. And a family, so my gaming is interrupted by them...

But apart from minor distractions like these, gaming all the time!

Well, I'm kind of under the suspicion that there's 40% of us that aren't playing games as much as we would like. That's quite a bit, when you think about it.

Well, I'm kind of under the suspicion that there's 40% of us that aren't playing games as much as we would like. That's quite a bit, when you think about it.

What makes you think it is so low as a mere 40%?

Ok, I know 24/7 isn't an option for any of us, but I think for quite a few of us...life hasn't settled to a point where you can do anything but maybe catch a quick game here and there, or your primary gaming partner is afflicted with a parasite.

I use to run theme nights. I find it convenient to reduce the number of 'options' in order to reduce the amount of 'what should we play?'

Unfortunately, I have a father and son that barely understand why theme is in games let alone a night based around it, so very quickly in a night they'd both start saying things like 'have we had enough of this theme?' And inevitably they'd loudly announce midnight in joyous fashion to mark the 'end of the night' and the 'end of the theme', so that they could then play other 'non-themed' games. It jut got way to frustrating.

I use to run theme nights. I find it convenient to reduce the number of 'options' in order to reduce the amount of 'what should we play?'

Plus you get out of the rut of playing the "typical" and bringing to the table something that might have been thought about on a typical game nite. I mean, I can only take "let's play agricola" or "lets play dominion" just so much.